From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 10 20:13:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA12214 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 20:13:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kevin.sunshine.net (pme20.sunshine.net [204.191.205.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA12208 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 20:13:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by kevin.sunshine.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA00261 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 20:06:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: kevin.sunshine.net: cagey owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 20:06:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk X-Sender: cagey@kevin.sunshine.net To: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Fatal trap 9: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Heres one I can't find in the archives. I tried to mount a 720Kb DOS Floppy with: /sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt today which returned an input/output error, and returned to tcsh prompt. I was interupted and while dealing with that I turned to notice the following. Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode instruction pointer = 0x8: 0xf010fa91 stack pointer = 0z10: 0xefbffee4 frame pointer = 0x10: 0xefbfff0c code segment = base 0x0, Limit 0xfffff, type 0x16 = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1 ,gran1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, iopl=0 current process = 192(sh) interrupt mask net tty bio panic: general protection fault syncing disks... 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 giving up (this may not be accurate format but the content should be) This was a freshly formatted disk with no bad sectors report- ed. My question is should this have happened the way it did? -- =| Regards, =| FreeBSD ==> http://www.FreeBSD.org =| Kevin G. Eliuk =| "Free at last, free at last, ...." British Columbia *BSD User Directory ==> http://www.cynic.net